Frankfurt have reportedly done the same with Jovic, paying just over £5m to secure the services of the goal-hungry Serbian.

Just last summer, he was relatively unknown by many of us but he’s now one of the Bundesliga’s best goalscorers and he’s said to be worth upwards of £65m.

How did Benfica – a club renowned for getting the best out of the transfer market over the years, having sold the likes of Angel Di Maria, David Luiz and Renato Sanches for blockbuster prices – get this so wrong?

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